TEACHSOC: Re: for culture and media classes - Media coverage research

[Del Thomas Ph. D.]

Can you really separate time from ideology.  Is not time or column inches ideology? Del Khaldoun Samman wrote: {Sorry for the double posting, but my earlier email was sent to you before I finished my last sentence. Sorry} Thanks Evan for the useful website. However, counting the number of minutes spent on Runaway Bride versus Sudan may give you some insights on media coverage, it tells you very litle about the ideological content of the actual programming. For instance, we get alot of coverage devoted to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Iraq, probably close to that of, lets say, Michael Jackson. But the content of the coverage is extremely ideological. So its not only HOW MUCH TIME is spent on the coverage but the IDEOLOGICAL CONTENT in the actual coverage. best, Khaldoun ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs